SUMMARY:

• 23 year software developer with additional experience in database administration, IT operations, server administration, and network administration working in a variety of IT environments, large and small, supporting both custom applications and popular ERP systems and integrating them with legacy applications. Primarily focusing on the IBM iOS tool set, but having exposure to a wide range of tools and environments.
• Delivers results on target with efficient processing, increased productivity, data integrity, and user satisfaction that bring practical solutions to business problems.
• A quick study that is willing to take ownership of projects and guarantee their successful implementation.
• Attentive to the details - customer-facing and technical - insisting on a quality end product.
• Well-organized project and change control within a project management discipline.
• Solid written and oral communication skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

TECHNICAL: RPG IV (including free form, embedded SQL in ILE Environments) iOS Developer Tools - WDSC/Rational for I Series, DDS, CL, SEU, SDA, RLU, PDM, DBU, DFU, Query/400, Query Manager/400, subfile programming, CODE/400, TCP/IP Toolset IBM S/38 & S/36 Toolset (RPGIII, RPGII, SEU, SDA, DDS, CL, OCL, etc.) iOS Server and Security Administration Hawkeye Pathfinder and Abstract software analysis tools Infinium Financials PRMS Manufacturing and Financials JD Edwards Financials Microsoft Office Professional Suite including Visio Windows SQL Server 2000 and 2005 Administration - DBA Crystal Reports Microsoft Windows - All version Help Systems ROBOT Inovis EDI Silvon Change Management Ethernet Network Administration

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Applications Integrator

Confidential, Indianapolis, Indiana

Responsibilities:

• Decreased project timelines for FedEx International Priority Delivery projects by developing RPG ILE utilities to dynamically interface legacy ERP systems in the US and Japan with FedEx systems internationally via internet communications with dynamic FTP scripts and the System i Integrated File System with UNIX (PASE) functionality.
• Enhanced customer relations and decreased various project timelines by developing RPG ILE utilities to interface with System i electronic mail tools to simplify the design and build of electronic communications from within System i software applications.
• Improved Customer Relations for the sales force and increased profitability by developing key components of the Price Quoting system to provides mission-critical functionality while enforcing corporate policies.
• Reduced software change risk by rebuilding the Integration testing and user acceptance testing environments.
• Reduced labor costs and decreased cash application timelines by building EDI A/R Cash Receipts Interfaces with Confidential Bank and built a .csv upload process option on the same backbone.
• Reduced project costs and risks by redesigning SMC’s corporate customer pricing manager during the Lot Size Controlled Pricing initiative.
• Improved SOX-level software change compliance by leading the implementation of Aldon LMi Change Management System on System i Server.
• Currently working on a corporate increase System i server throughput by upgrading iOS to V 7.1 which requires upgrading all Infinium Systems Materials Management and Financial Management modules.

Sr. Programmer Analyst/DBA

Confidential, Cleveland, Tennessee

Responsibilities:

• Reduced system administration costs by performing iSeries Server administration in-house.
• Eliminated contractor costs by performing all iSeries software changes in-house.
• Reduced software development risks by setting up a test version of the iSeries software systems.
• Improved systems operations by re- staff on iSeries best practices for all operational and administrative tasks.
• Reduced the universities IT costs by streamlining closing processes at Calendar year-end, Fiscal year-end, and during the registration and closing processes at the beginning and end of each semester.
• Enhanced the student experience by: 1) providing web self-service interfaces to iSeries applications used by web developers, 2) eliminating software issues in registration, housing, billing, and payment processing systems, 3) redesigning the chapel attendance system to simplify compliance with the university attendance policy.
• Increased throughput in accounting by designing Positive Pay and check reconciliation processes for A/P and Payroll systems.

Sr. Programmer Analyst

Confidential, Athens, Tennessee

Responsibilities:

• Reduced product shrinkage and increase company profitability by creating a system that gives stakeholders the ability analyze the retail-level product stocking habits of route drivers at different views - from the corporate perspective down to the individual stop level.
• Eliminated the potential for customer order processing delays by developing a real-time interface between legacy sales order and billing systems on the Athens AS/400 and BPCS manufacturing and shipping systems on the Birmingham AS/400 during a divisional realignment at the direction of the FTC for approval of the corporate merger between Dean Foods and Suiza Foods

Systems Analyst

Confidential, Ringgold, Georgia

Responsibilities:

• Increased sales by developing an EDI Advance Ship Notice system for Arnold Palmer Golf used with major national retailers.
• Strengthened customer relationships with national cable shopping networks by designing and implementing the first automated EDI purchase order, invoicing, and A/R Cash Application systems for Frost Cutlery.
• Reduced costs and strengthened the market positions for Frost Cutlery and Chattanooga Shooting Supplies by: 1) migrating both companies from S/36 to AS/400 environments on the AS/400, 2) migrating company data from “flat-file” to IBM DB/2 environments, 3) removing all Y2K systems risks, 4) streamlining systems administration and operational processes, and 5) scrubbing software and database systems eliminating unused objects.
• Reduced network and PC administration costs and increased productivity by installing and Ethernet network for Frost Cutlery.

S r. Programmer Analyst

Confidential, Cleveland, Tennessee

Responsibilities:

• Eliminated a source of database integrity risk by activating AS/400 database record-level check integrity across all PRMS, SYNON/2E, and custom systems.
• Reduced software implementation time and eliminated human-error risks by developing a communications protocol to move PRMS Menu Master job controls from test environment to the production system at the same time Implementer change management requests were processed for AS/400 software changes.
• Increased production scheduling throughput eliminating manual entry of corporate production demand into the PRMS production scheduling system.
• Enhanced the user experience and increased engineering data integrity by designing a system to track the network location of engineering drawings and link them to the PRMS part master database tied to the new ECO tracking system. Drawings were made available to stakeholders on-demand from AS/ interfaces opening them in PC image-viewing software.

Systems Analyst

Confidential, Ringgold, GA

Responsibilities:

• Increased throughput and reduced project timelines by designing and implemented innovative reporting tools used in Cost Accounting key to analyzing cost reductions and return-on-investment for proposed product changes in the world’s largest appliance manufacturing facility, Maytag Confidential .
• Reduced IT Software requests by developing a database to allow users to configure changes to and additions of facility production lines wit in a 5-Day Rolling Production Schedule system at Maytag Cleveland Cooking Products.
• Relieved system administration workload by bringing AS/400 security to a SOX-level compliance and streamlining security administration with automated processes and tools at Maytag Cleveland Cooking Products.

Programmer Analyst

M aytag Customer Service, Cleveland, TN

• Eliminated a costly project delay by developing tools to automate administration processes to resolve technical database issues between IBM AS/400 and PC (OS/2) software requirements to keep OS/2 Smalltalk Integrated CRM system development on target before IBM support could release a PTF to resolve the issue.

Programmer Analyst

Confidential, Cleveland, TN

Responsibilities:

• Streamlined daily operational tasks reducing workload for systems operational and administration staff.
• Simplified a complicated legacy inter-company billing system which resolved divisional conflicts between managers.
• Increased productivity automating legacy S/36 billing and network billing system interfaces to S/38 JD Edwards A/R and G/L Systems.
• Implemented Ethernet network communications solutions that brought stability between company facilities.